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66th Oscars (1994)

Hi, and happy new year. I've resumed improving Oscar ceremony lists now that I'm done with Christmas, I was hoping if you can give me opinions and comments on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/66th Academy Awards/archive1 as you have done for my other Oscar ceremonies? I would like to receive feedback so I could make necessary improvements. Regards.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 04:38, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

RE: 66th Oscars

Hi there,

I addressed your concerns regarding Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/66th Academy Awards/archive1 and I made some corrections.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 04:49, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

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71st Oscars (1999)

Hi, I was hoping if you can give me opinions and comments for the 71st Academy Awards regarding Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/71st Academy Awards/archive1 as you have done for my other Oscar ceremonies? I would like to receive feedback so I could make necessary improvements. I truly appreciate your help. Thanks.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 17:02, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

74th Oscars (2002)

Hi, I understand you are busy, but would you please proofread the 74th Academy Awards regarding Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/74th Academy Awards/archive1 as you have done for my other Oscar ceremonies? I would like to receive feedback so I could make necessary improvements. I truly appreciate your help. Thanks.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 04:57, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Please remember

That per WP:BRD you are to undertake a dialogue with other editors when your bold changes are reverted and not Edit War. Please also note that until content disputes are resolved the Status Quo before the dispute is maintained until a new consensus is agreed on. MisterShiney 23:29, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Correct. I'm surprised that an experienced editor like Reywas92 would edit war like this. Per BRD they should stick to the talk page at Talk:House of Cards (U.S. TV series) and get consensus before attempting such a change, especially since it has been challenged. Those subheadings are standard practice and not worth fighting over. Keep the status quo version. -- Brangifer ( talk) 01:07, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

1998 and 2002 Oscars

Hi there,

Sorry if you are busy, but would you please (if possible) proofread the 70th Academy Awards and 74th Academy Awards? I would greatly appreciate the feedback. Thanks.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 23:09, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

RE:1998 Oscars

Hi there,

I fixed everything you have suggested regarding the 70th Academy Awards for featured list consideration.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 07:35, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

2013 Oscars

Hello there,

If you have any spare time, would you kindly check 85th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the help.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 19:54, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

2007 Oscars

Hello there,

If you have any spare time, would you kindly check 79th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the help.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 03:13, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

2003 Oscars

Hello there,

If you have any spare time, would you kindly check 75th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the help.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 03:27, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

2014 Academy Awards

Hello there,

would you kindly proofread 86th Academy Awards for featured list status? I would appreciate the help very much.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 02:25, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

2014 Oscars corrections

Hi, I made some changes according to your suggestions. Thank you very much for your help.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 04:35, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

59th Oscars (1987)

Hello there,

If you have any spare time, would you kindly check 59th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the help.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 20:11, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi Reywas92- Thanks again for your initial copy-edits. I wondered if you might think about reviewing this list at FLC, time and topic-interest permitting... Many thanks-- Godot13 ( talk) 04:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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Nope. The TFD was running for three weeks, and I found the oppose arguments convincing. You're perfectly welcome to do template transitions on your own (Autowikibrowser may be able to help), make a new TFD, or ask another admin. Reywas92 Talk 06:17, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for the many thanks you've sent, Reywas92. I appreciate that someone recognizes the effort. I'd be interested in learning how to thank someone in the same fashion. Cheers and happy new year! Yoho2001 ( talk) 13:03, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Dear Reywas92,

It is my duty as a sometimes wikieditor to report directly to you that, as it is my knowledge, you added the Duties section to the page Secretary of State of Indiana, and as I have observed, it appears that you have, whether or not intentionally, plagiarized on that page. This plagiarizing is the specific copying of sections from the Secretary of State page on IN.gov. Notice here:

Your article: Duties The Office of Secretary of State is one of five constitutional officers originally designated in Indiana's State Constitution of 1816. Sixty-one Hoosiers have served as the third highest-ranking official in state government. Early duties of the office included the maintenance of state records and preservation of the state seal. But as state government expanded, so did the responsibilities of the Secretary of State. Present responsibilities include chartering of new business, regulation of the securities industry, administering regulations relating to the registration of motorized vehicle dealers, and oversight of state elections.

IN.gov's article (plagiarized sections in bold and italics)

What does the office do and what is it responsible for? "The Office of Secretary of State is one of five constitutional offices originally designated in Indiana's State Constitution of 1816. Sixty-one Hoosiers have served as the third highest-ranking official in state government.

Historically the duties of the office included the maintenance of state records and preservation of the state seal, but as state government expanded so did the responsibilities of the Secretary of State. Present duties include chartering of new business, regulation of the securities industry, oversight of state elections, commissioning of notaries public, registration of trademarks and licensing of vehicle dealerships throughout Indiana. " [1]

This was all accomplished apparently without the use of citation, quotation, or direct on-paragraph reference to the site, which is required in such a case. Correct me if this was not your doing, but, from what i gathered in the page history, the Duties section appeared in your edit. Also I am not aware if any other sections have been plagiarized.

Thank you for your time,

Good will and good luck,

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  1. ^ "IN.gov - Secretary of State - About the Office". in.gov. Indiana State Government. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
Deeterboy, You'll also see from the edit history that I copied it from Todd Rokita, as someone else added the material there where it didn't belong and I moved it to the more relevant article without being aware of the source. Why you're telling me about a six-year-old edit I'm not sure, but you're welcome to do what you want with it now. Reywas92 Talk 19:35, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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User:Beyond My Ken, I don't follow anything blindly, I believe it looks terrible to have an image on the left beginning in one section and pushing the underlined header of the next to the center of the page, and following guidelines, regardless of their requirement, is not "mucking around". With the number of times I've been reflexively reverted by people who did not actually look at the changes, my single revert is not edit-warring and does not warrant your need for bold italics. Thanks to your reflexive revert, you also undid my copyediting of an incorrect colon. Reywas92 Talk 21:28, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

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Presidential debates

Just noticed your actions regarding the Democratic and Republican Party presidential debates. I really don't understand your problem with individual articles on widely covered, thus clearly individually notable events. These are so much more notable than probably tens of thousands of articles on particular TV episodes, music tracks or computer games. Don't tell me WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. There are clear notability criteria, and each of these events clearly passes them. I missed the RfC, and actually think these should have been submitted to a regular WP:AfD, but for some reason others did agree with your action. Now would you please at least take care, all content is merged back? You just blanked the pages, but didn't copy over the whole content, which would include quite some cleanup, edits by others, airtime tables and categories. Thanks. -- PanchoS ( talk) 08:11, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

User:PanchoS: No they really aren't notable by themselves, they're news events, with notability in the context of the election as a whole. AFD is meant for deletion of content of pages as whole, not mergers, and I have been told not to bring merge proposals to AFD in the past, or people want to keep the article not realizing I do want to keep the content but in another location. The one AFD that was started for the ninth debate was likely to go the same way as the RFC to which you were pinged. My Wikipedia philosophy (and possibly that of all eight other commenters there) is that information should be covered as concisely as possible, so if one page can accommodate everything about the debates, why shouldn't it? Why should someone interested in what went on have to go to another nine subarticles after reading the main one? The same goes for the state primaries: sure, you can find important information about the D and R primaries and general, but why should they be separate articles when it's the same topic? One page can report the related info perfectly fine, and I hope to address that soon. I'll check for the differences made, but the cleanup looks like basic changes for article vs. section formatting that doesn't need to go back, including categories. Reywas92 Talk 17:53, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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List of World Heritage Sites in Australia

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I see that an anonymous editor has recreated a separate list for Australia again. I agree with you that it's redundant to have two separate lists, but I'm not really involved enough in this discussion to climb in and revert. -- Slashme ( talk) 09:25, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

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Street lamps in Chennai

I fixed the reference and the text myself, and removed the warning. And since not even the source gives power consumption in "megawatt hours", only in megawatt, which is of no use here, I removed that part of it, so that the text now only tells what the cost per month is... - Tom |  Thomas.W talk 21:41, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

It's supposed to be megawatts, that's how power consumption is measured when street lamps are in use. And you also reverted a grammar correction I made... Reywas92 Talk 03:04, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Utility bills are based on "kilowatt/megawatt hours", so to make it make sense you should either say that "there are 248,000 street lamps that when all are lit draw 27 megawatt", or that "the energy consumption is x megawatt hours, for a monthly cost of x rupees", not "they draw 27 megawatt for a monthly cost of 60.000.000 rupees", since it would make readers think that the cost of electricity (per kilowatt hour) is outrageous in India (automatically assuming it should read "megawatt hours"). And while I might have removed a small improvement in grammar I also corrected your mistake of not changing the access date in the reference... - Tom |  Thomas.W talk 03:22, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for reverting my erroneous entry on the election page; it was a genuine error I made in misreading the electoral map regarding Nevada and Utah, both of which happen to have 6 electoral votes. Also, I really like your user page "Where I Live" section, and used a variant of it on my own user page. Thanks. BillCook ( talk) 17:45, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

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Let me help you with your javascript. there is quite some work there. — TheDJ ( talkcontribs) 07:01, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Should be better now. You still have PyroSpirits metadata plugin in your vector.js. You can also enable that in the Gadgets section of your preferences, and then remove that line from your vector.js. Gadgets are a bit safer and require less maintenance. — TheDJ ( talkcontribs) 07:29, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks so much, User:TheDJ!! Several of those items I added years ago before they became defaults or gadget options and I never bothered to remove them; it seemed I could only get only either popups or the contribs colors to work at a time. I got quite used to the nostalgia layout but as long as it has the zero-second hide. Thanks again! Reywas92 Talk 19:15, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Apostrophes

Hi. Please see this bit - "If the singular possessive is difficult or awkward to pronounce with an added sibilant, do not add an extra s". Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:19, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

User:Lugnuts: How in the heck is Tomas's difficult or awkward to pronounce?? Words ending in a long 'ees' sound like the examples Socrates's and Achilles's may be, but not Tomas's. It's more awkward to say Tomas mother, which sounds like successive normal words without a sound indicating possessive, and that is not "how the pronunciation is intended" or fitting the examples provided in the sources. Reywas92 Talk 19:34, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
User:Lugnuts: Furthermore, it's a French name, pronounced Toh-ma with a silent s, so an additional s to indicate possession couldn't possibly be awkward to pronounce and is in fact necessary. Reywas92 Talk 19:45, 19 June 2017 (UTC)


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Thanks for the clarification – it doesn't specify it in the Wikipedia article. However, given his mother was born in El Salvador, wouldn't that make him Salvadoran? MB298 ( talk) 06:14, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

User:MB298, that article says she was actually Greek, which we don't include as a minority. I couldn't find anything on Google calling them Hispanic, just Arab American. Reywas92 Talk 06:29, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
To clarify, John Sununu's mother was not "Greek," but a Salvadoran of Lebanese descent and of Greek Orthodox religion. From Sununu's WP article: "Sununu's mother, Victoria Dada, was born in El Salvador. Her family was Greek Orthodox Christian from Lebanon and settled in Central America at the turn of the twentieth century." There are approximately 100,000 Salvadorans of Arab ancestry (over 1.5% of the population), and Arab Salvadorans are as Salvadoran as Arab Ecuadorians are Ecuadorian and Arab Brazilians are Brazilian. /info/en/?search=Demographics_of_El_Salvador#Arab_Salvadorans AuH2ORepublican ( talk) 13:57, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

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"Actresses", "Television", and "American", all narrow the focus down so that it is not indiscriminate.

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Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia would like to host the 2030 World Cup, and there are many references to this. But so far the decision is still unofficial. Can I create Algeria-Morocco-Tunisia 2030 FIFA World Cup bid article? cordially.-- Boumediene15 ( talk) 19:33, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Boumediene15: I am not involved with any World Cup articles so I have no idea why you are asking me this. Talk:Morocco 2030 FIFA World Cup bid is the appropriate place to discuss a WP:MOVE as there is already an article related to this topic. Reywas92 Talk 20:58, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

I have withdrawn the nom per ChrisTheDude's comment. I didn't realize that having two noms was an issue (it's been a while since I was at FLC). Regarding our discussion, I understand where you are coming from. However, the whole purpose of list articles, in my opinion, is to group similar items so that they are easily understood. History of the Green Bay Packers should include all of this info, just in the form of prose written into the overall history. Green Bay Packers, in theory, should briefly summarize all the major topics (similar to the list of head coaches, starting quarterbacks, first-round draft picks, seasons, etc.). These items are broken out because they form a cohesive group and having tons of tables and longer prose explaining each setting would be redundant. As an example, both the History and the Packers articles explain in the prose about all the head coaches, but we still have a list of Packers head coaches (and do so for every other team, I believe). In my eyes, this is the same exact thing. Now I would be more understanding if the list was only 3 items long, but 8 items is usually long enough to constitute a unique group. I guess that's my opinion on the matter. If you would like to move forward with a merge discussion or AFD, obviously you are welcome to. Cheers, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 20:19, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Navaids in aerodrome articles

Sincere thanks for supporting my case in Kasane Airport! Jan olieslagers ( talk) 18:07, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Answer

To respond to the comment you left me: the guidelines are not the same on every WP project. For example, why is there no capital letter here: Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator)? According to your standards, there should be one, right?

It should also be American politician instead of U.S. politician right? Then what about John Curtin (U.S. politician) or William Wall (U.S. politician)?

It's a mess. Don't give me lessons for following rules that keep changing; nobody can keep up with it.

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sorry :)

Hey, I hope you don't mind my including your name in my little tirade recently at wt:NRHP#Texas Panhandle merger of county list-articles. I got frustrated there, obviously, and I complained, including naming you unfairly too. At the moment I was perceiving your statement "Alternatively the small counties could be merged to into National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas", etc., as selling out, when I perceived we needed to have clear focus that only geographically coherent regions would acceptable. I also wasn't acknowledging that you stated you did prefer regions. Anyhow, of course it is okay for you to have whatever opinions you have, even if they don't 100% agree with mine, and I am glad you were sharing. I am sorry if I might have offended you. I do very much appreciate your responding to my request to you to participate in that discussion, and I do appreciate your many other contributions.

About the Texas regions, I expect I'll bring it up again, but not right away. I think it would be better to go forward on a different, easier, state first, taking away one objection asserted about the Texas case (that there are not yet any other state-level examples, at least if one disregards List of RHPs in PR). Happily there's some agreement now at Talk:List of RHPs in WV about region organization in West Virginia, knock on wood. Anyhow, sorry again, and thanks again. -- Doncram ( talk) 19:58, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

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@ John from Idegon:. Thanks to User:AuH2ORepublican for adding other sources, but this is complete and utter nonsense. You reverted it from an accurate, complete, sourced list of sports, to an incomplete, unsourced list. I am quite familiar with WP:RS (please don't template me!) and absolutely no part of it bans primary sources. A list of sports is certainly mundane, and it is preposterous to think that an official source is not reliable or usable for this. Citing the school's athletic department is no less permitted than citing the school for the enrollment, for the principal, or for academic offerings. If the school says those are the sports played, it doesn't matter whether they are state-organized or not, they can be listed. Where in the article did it limit the section to IHSAA sports in the first place? Reywas92 Talk 08:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Improved Article + Feedback

Hi Reywas92,

I've had a read of your advice and I improved my article, though I did have some queries. I've wrote them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/List_of_S%26P_1000_companies/archive1&redirect=no

Thanks! XOLE2129 ( talk) 00:33, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Members-elect

@ Reywas92, I don't know if it's an official Wikipedia policy, but certainly the practice in articles listing members of Congress is to wait for a member-elect's term to commence before adding him ir her to the list. There's nothing wrong with adding language to the introductory paragraph noting Tuesday's election of two Native-American women to Congress, but we should wait until January 3, 2019 to add them to the article. For one thing, it's tempting fate to report on future events, since if one of the two gets eaten by wolves (a la President Gerald Ford) she will not be sworn in on January 3 (or, more precisely, her term would not commence on January 3). Similarly, one should never place an end date for the term of a lame-duck member of Congress, given that such member may die or resign prior to January 3.

So we have two options for dealing with the two newly elected Native Americans. One is simply to remove them from the list and wait until their term begins on January 3 (God willing) to add them; that is what typically is done in articles listing members of Congress. The other is to add a section for members-elect listing the two members-elect and their expected start dates; then on January 3, we can move them to the main list and eliminate the members-elect section. This is what is being done for the list of African-American Representatives. Check it out: /info/en/?search=List_of_African-American_United_States_Representatives

Which of the options do you prefer? AuH2ORepublican ( talk) 13:00, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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Ok, I know you're acting in good faith here, but I can't be expected to drop what I'm doing to participate in all of these AfDs and find sources about all of these topics. Can you please try to slow down the AfDs so these can at least be fairly assessed? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 01:51, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

I did some searches myself and couldn't find much substantial to support notability. I've been to the Seattle Eagle myself and I really fail to see what makes these anything special among the thousands of generic bars and nightclubs (and strip clubs!) across the country/world, open and closed, gay and straight. I removed one that had more search results. Reywas92 Talk 02:05, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
OK, thanks for replying, but my request here is to slow down with the nominations. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 02:11, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Okay I've removed a couple more but I really don't see how they're going to show notability. Reywas92 Talk 02:21, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
I understand, but for example, I just spent over an hour working on Carriage Room just because you nominated the article for deletion. Assessing notability takes time, so nominating a bunch of articles at once does not provide sufficient time to demonstrate sourcing exists and flesh out articles. You might try questioning notability on an article's talk page before just immediately assuming a topic is not notable and marking for deletion. Again, I know you're acting in good faith here, and I appreciate you slowing down with the AfDs here. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 06:39, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Indiana Statehouse

Hey! So you seem to be right about the spelling of the "Indiana Statehouse". Nevertheless, this following page still uses the "State House" spelling version: /info/en/?search=Indiana_State_House. What do you think about it?

Gxiglon ( talk) 23:17, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, sorry for being brusque. I will move that page; all the official sources spell it as one word. Reywas92 Talk 02:19, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
It's fine, you were not rude. Thanks for moving the page ;)
Gxiglon ( talk) 09:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Just a heads up, the "Park" moniker is still applied by the city (even on the linked webpage) and has triple the hits on Google and in The Seattle Times. I don't think it would be worth moving. Sounder Bruce 05:43, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment, I won't move it then. I've known it as Occidental Square since I moved here and there are lots of reputable sources calling it that on Google, but yeah there doesn't appear to be a clear common name argument. Perhaps there's just a gradual shift in what people are used to using! Reywas92 Talk 05:49, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of Washington State legislative districts

Can you explain why it was necessary to delete all the pages for the Washington State legislative districts? Some of them have important information that now doesn't exist in the merged pages, such as the background behind the vacancy for the 40th District. Can't we leave these pages in place so we can further expand them in the future? Or if this significant change has already been discussed somewhere else, can you point me to that discussion? -- Almccon ( talk) 21:03, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

I strongly feel that deleting all the WA state legislative district articles was not a good decision. It would make sense if that information was all duplicative and contained elsewhere, but it wasn't and isn't. Each page's legislative district page included the districts current representatives, which is duplicative, but also described the districts geography in detail and information about the contemporary and historical political landscape in those districts, covering vacancy appointments, special elections, and more. This was all substantive, factual information that is now lost and no longer accessible. The "master page" that contains a list of all WA's 49 legislative districts is not a meaningful substitute. -- Reliken ( talk) 19:47, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

I have also come for the same reason...I looked through Reywas' contributions and do not see anything relating to a discussion approving it. It seems a very dramatic move to make without consensus (far beyond the parameters of WP:BEBOLD). I am going to undo all of the edits and begin a discussion at Talk:Washington state legislative districts. Reywas et al, please continue this there. PrairieKid ( talk) 18:05, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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...to ANI for WP:Harassment, I would suggest that you stop following my edits and reverting them. I have sufficient evidence right now, but I'm willing to let it go if you simply stop. I hope that's clear.

BTW, ArbCom has clearly ruled on a number of occasions that edit warring to enforce MOS -- which is an advisory guideline, and not a mandatory policy, is not a valid reason for edit warring. Please keep that in mind. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 00:14, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

I have made no edits that violate policy. It's not harassment to re-add a correct comma and remove an incorrect one, to place images in the relevant section, or to perform basic copyediting. Nothing I have done is offensive or threatening, and it's inappropriate to suggest it is. Enforcing something that goes against MOS is not a valid reason to revert me repeatedly either. You have provided no valid reason at all why the images should be in the wrong section and break the horizontal header line. Reywas92 Talk 00:30, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi there, Reywas92. Here's my latest FLC. Please feel free to leave your comments there, thank you.  — Ssven2 Looking at you, kid 07:38, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I would hate to think...

...that you were following me around by looking at my contributions and going to an article that you have never edited before -- Daniel Burnham -- to revert the layout changes I made to it, after we had a dispute on the exact same issue at St. Francis Dam, because doing so would be a violation of WP:Harassment and would probably get you blocked for editing for a period of time. I would suggest that you not do that again, or else you might find yourself as the subject of a report to WP:AN/I. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 07:58, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I see that I've warned you about this before. You're living on the edge, pal. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 08:00, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Ooooh I'm sooo scared... I'm not the one who was just blocked for edit warring. Unclear why you deliberately made changes inconsistent with the MOS, other than your repeated excuse that the MOS is not mandatory. Reywas92 Talk 08:04, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
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66th Oscars (1994)

Hi, and happy new year. I've resumed improving Oscar ceremony lists now that I'm done with Christmas, I was hoping if you can give me opinions and comments on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/66th Academy Awards/archive1 as you have done for my other Oscar ceremonies? I would like to receive feedback so I could make necessary improvements. Regards.

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RE: 66th Oscars

Hi there,

I addressed your concerns regarding Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/66th Academy Awards/archive1 and I made some corrections.

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71st Oscars (1999)

Hi, I was hoping if you can give me opinions and comments for the 71st Academy Awards regarding Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/71st Academy Awards/archive1 as you have done for my other Oscar ceremonies? I would like to receive feedback so I could make necessary improvements. I truly appreciate your help. Thanks.

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74th Oscars (2002)

Hi, I understand you are busy, but would you please proofread the 74th Academy Awards regarding Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/74th Academy Awards/archive1 as you have done for my other Oscar ceremonies? I would like to receive feedback so I could make necessary improvements. I truly appreciate your help. Thanks.

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Please remember

That per WP:BRD you are to undertake a dialogue with other editors when your bold changes are reverted and not Edit War. Please also note that until content disputes are resolved the Status Quo before the dispute is maintained until a new consensus is agreed on. MisterShiney 23:29, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Correct. I'm surprised that an experienced editor like Reywas92 would edit war like this. Per BRD they should stick to the talk page at Talk:House of Cards (U.S. TV series) and get consensus before attempting such a change, especially since it has been challenged. Those subheadings are standard practice and not worth fighting over. Keep the status quo version. -- Brangifer ( talk) 01:07, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

1998 and 2002 Oscars

Hi there,

Sorry if you are busy, but would you please (if possible) proofread the 70th Academy Awards and 74th Academy Awards? I would greatly appreciate the feedback. Thanks.

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RE:1998 Oscars

Hi there,

I fixed everything you have suggested regarding the 70th Academy Awards for featured list consideration.

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2013 Oscars

Hello there,

If you have any spare time, would you kindly check 85th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the help.

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2007 Oscars

Hello there,

If you have any spare time, would you kindly check 79th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the help.

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2003 Oscars

Hello there,

If you have any spare time, would you kindly check 75th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the help.

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2014 Academy Awards

Hello there,

would you kindly proofread 86th Academy Awards for featured list status? I would appreciate the help very much.

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2014 Oscars corrections

Hi, I made some changes according to your suggestions. Thank you very much for your help.

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59th Oscars (1987)

Hello there,

If you have any spare time, would you kindly check 59th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the help.

-- Birdienest81 ( talk) 20:11, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi Reywas92- Thanks again for your initial copy-edits. I wondered if you might think about reviewing this list at FLC, time and topic-interest permitting... Many thanks-- Godot13 ( talk) 04:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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Do you intend to respond? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:41, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Nope. The TFD was running for three weeks, and I found the oppose arguments convincing. You're perfectly welcome to do template transitions on your own (Autowikibrowser may be able to help), make a new TFD, or ask another admin. Reywas92 Talk 06:17, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for the many thanks you've sent, Reywas92. I appreciate that someone recognizes the effort. I'd be interested in learning how to thank someone in the same fashion. Cheers and happy new year! Yoho2001 ( talk) 13:03, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Dear Reywas92,

It is my duty as a sometimes wikieditor to report directly to you that, as it is my knowledge, you added the Duties section to the page Secretary of State of Indiana, and as I have observed, it appears that you have, whether or not intentionally, plagiarized on that page. This plagiarizing is the specific copying of sections from the Secretary of State page on IN.gov. Notice here:

Your article: Duties The Office of Secretary of State is one of five constitutional officers originally designated in Indiana's State Constitution of 1816. Sixty-one Hoosiers have served as the third highest-ranking official in state government. Early duties of the office included the maintenance of state records and preservation of the state seal. But as state government expanded, so did the responsibilities of the Secretary of State. Present responsibilities include chartering of new business, regulation of the securities industry, administering regulations relating to the registration of motorized vehicle dealers, and oversight of state elections.

IN.gov's article (plagiarized sections in bold and italics)

What does the office do and what is it responsible for? "The Office of Secretary of State is one of five constitutional offices originally designated in Indiana's State Constitution of 1816. Sixty-one Hoosiers have served as the third highest-ranking official in state government.

Historically the duties of the office included the maintenance of state records and preservation of the state seal, but as state government expanded so did the responsibilities of the Secretary of State. Present duties include chartering of new business, regulation of the securities industry, oversight of state elections, commissioning of notaries public, registration of trademarks and licensing of vehicle dealerships throughout Indiana. " [1]

This was all accomplished apparently without the use of citation, quotation, or direct on-paragraph reference to the site, which is required in such a case. Correct me if this was not your doing, but, from what i gathered in the page history, the Duties section appeared in your edit. Also I am not aware if any other sections have been plagiarized.

Thank you for your time,

Good will and good luck,

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  1. ^ "IN.gov - Secretary of State - About the Office". in.gov. Indiana State Government. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
Deeterboy, You'll also see from the edit history that I copied it from Todd Rokita, as someone else added the material there where it didn't belong and I moved it to the more relevant article without being aware of the source. Why you're telling me about a six-year-old edit I'm not sure, but you're welcome to do what you want with it now. Reywas92 Talk 19:35, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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User:Beyond My Ken, I don't follow anything blindly, I believe it looks terrible to have an image on the left beginning in one section and pushing the underlined header of the next to the center of the page, and following guidelines, regardless of their requirement, is not "mucking around". With the number of times I've been reflexively reverted by people who did not actually look at the changes, my single revert is not edit-warring and does not warrant your need for bold italics. Thanks to your reflexive revert, you also undid my copyediting of an incorrect colon. Reywas92 Talk 21:28, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

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Presidential debates

Just noticed your actions regarding the Democratic and Republican Party presidential debates. I really don't understand your problem with individual articles on widely covered, thus clearly individually notable events. These are so much more notable than probably tens of thousands of articles on particular TV episodes, music tracks or computer games. Don't tell me WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. There are clear notability criteria, and each of these events clearly passes them. I missed the RfC, and actually think these should have been submitted to a regular WP:AfD, but for some reason others did agree with your action. Now would you please at least take care, all content is merged back? You just blanked the pages, but didn't copy over the whole content, which would include quite some cleanup, edits by others, airtime tables and categories. Thanks. -- PanchoS ( talk) 08:11, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

User:PanchoS: No they really aren't notable by themselves, they're news events, with notability in the context of the election as a whole. AFD is meant for deletion of content of pages as whole, not mergers, and I have been told not to bring merge proposals to AFD in the past, or people want to keep the article not realizing I do want to keep the content but in another location. The one AFD that was started for the ninth debate was likely to go the same way as the RFC to which you were pinged. My Wikipedia philosophy (and possibly that of all eight other commenters there) is that information should be covered as concisely as possible, so if one page can accommodate everything about the debates, why shouldn't it? Why should someone interested in what went on have to go to another nine subarticles after reading the main one? The same goes for the state primaries: sure, you can find important information about the D and R primaries and general, but why should they be separate articles when it's the same topic? One page can report the related info perfectly fine, and I hope to address that soon. I'll check for the differences made, but the cleanup looks like basic changes for article vs. section formatting that doesn't need to go back, including categories. Reywas92 Talk 17:53, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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List of World Heritage Sites in Australia

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I see that an anonymous editor has recreated a separate list for Australia again. I agree with you that it's redundant to have two separate lists, but I'm not really involved enough in this discussion to climb in and revert. -- Slashme ( talk) 09:25, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

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Street lamps in Chennai

I fixed the reference and the text myself, and removed the warning. And since not even the source gives power consumption in "megawatt hours", only in megawatt, which is of no use here, I removed that part of it, so that the text now only tells what the cost per month is... - Tom |  Thomas.W talk 21:41, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

It's supposed to be megawatts, that's how power consumption is measured when street lamps are in use. And you also reverted a grammar correction I made... Reywas92 Talk 03:04, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Utility bills are based on "kilowatt/megawatt hours", so to make it make sense you should either say that "there are 248,000 street lamps that when all are lit draw 27 megawatt", or that "the energy consumption is x megawatt hours, for a monthly cost of x rupees", not "they draw 27 megawatt for a monthly cost of 60.000.000 rupees", since it would make readers think that the cost of electricity (per kilowatt hour) is outrageous in India (automatically assuming it should read "megawatt hours"). And while I might have removed a small improvement in grammar I also corrected your mistake of not changing the access date in the reference... - Tom |  Thomas.W talk 03:22, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you for Presidential Election revert Comment

Thanks for reverting my erroneous entry on the election page; it was a genuine error I made in misreading the electoral map regarding Nevada and Utah, both of which happen to have 6 electoral votes. Also, I really like your user page "Where I Live" section, and used a variant of it on my own user page. Thanks. BillCook ( talk) 17:45, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for creating the article on the Reconstruction Era National Monument. In case you are interested, I have substantially expanded the article and nominated it for DYK: see Template:Did you know nominations/Reconstruction Era National Monument. Let me know if you're interested in further expanding the article. Neutrality talk 05:28, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Deprod

I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}} tag from Richard Bowchier, which you proposed for deletion. found a journal article about him. Thanks!-- Jahaza ( talk) 15:52, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

let me help you

Let me help you with your javascript. there is quite some work there. — TheDJ ( talkcontribs) 07:01, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Should be better now. You still have PyroSpirits metadata plugin in your vector.js. You can also enable that in the Gadgets section of your preferences, and then remove that line from your vector.js. Gadgets are a bit safer and require less maintenance. — TheDJ ( talkcontribs) 07:29, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks so much, User:TheDJ!! Several of those items I added years ago before they became defaults or gadget options and I never bothered to remove them; it seemed I could only get only either popups or the contribs colors to work at a time. I got quite used to the nostalgia layout but as long as it has the zero-second hide. Thanks again! Reywas92 Talk 19:15, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Apostrophes

Hi. Please see this bit - "If the singular possessive is difficult or awkward to pronounce with an added sibilant, do not add an extra s". Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:19, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

User:Lugnuts: How in the heck is Tomas's difficult or awkward to pronounce?? Words ending in a long 'ees' sound like the examples Socrates's and Achilles's may be, but not Tomas's. It's more awkward to say Tomas mother, which sounds like successive normal words without a sound indicating possessive, and that is not "how the pronunciation is intended" or fitting the examples provided in the sources. Reywas92 Talk 19:34, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
User:Lugnuts: Furthermore, it's a French name, pronounced Toh-ma with a silent s, so an additional s to indicate possession couldn't possibly be awkward to pronounce and is in fact necessary. Reywas92 Talk 19:45, 19 June 2017 (UTC)


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John Sununu

Thanks for the clarification – it doesn't specify it in the Wikipedia article. However, given his mother was born in El Salvador, wouldn't that make him Salvadoran? MB298 ( talk) 06:14, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

User:MB298, that article says she was actually Greek, which we don't include as a minority. I couldn't find anything on Google calling them Hispanic, just Arab American. Reywas92 Talk 06:29, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
To clarify, John Sununu's mother was not "Greek," but a Salvadoran of Lebanese descent and of Greek Orthodox religion. From Sununu's WP article: "Sununu's mother, Victoria Dada, was born in El Salvador. Her family was Greek Orthodox Christian from Lebanon and settled in Central America at the turn of the twentieth century." There are approximately 100,000 Salvadorans of Arab ancestry (over 1.5% of the population), and Arab Salvadorans are as Salvadoran as Arab Ecuadorians are Ecuadorian and Arab Brazilians are Brazilian. /info/en/?search=Demographics_of_El_Salvador#Arab_Salvadorans AuH2ORepublican ( talk) 13:57, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

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List of American television actresses

You posted: "Indiscriminate list; no indication of inclusion criteria or why it should exist separate of Category:American television actresses"

Some points of clarification, for future reference:

"Actresses", "Television", and "American", all narrow the focus down so that it is not indiscriminate.

The inclusion criteria is indicated in the list title (which tells what is to be included in the list).

Concerning redundancy between lists and categories, see WP:CLN.     — The Transhumanist    07:37, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Surreal Barnstar
Had to do this… couldn’t resist it.

You’ve done a magnificent job on the time you’ve spent editing and protecting Wikipedia. I hope and pray you succeed greatly in your life. Surge_Elec ( talk) 21:35, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

You have participated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of foods by calorie. Therefore, you might be interested in the following AFD involving lists of food Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breakfast drinks (2nd nomination) -- Tyw7  ( 🗣️ Talk •  ✍️ Contributions) Please ping me if you had replied 11:49, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Request an opinion regarding the creation of an article

Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia would like to host the 2030 World Cup, and there are many references to this. But so far the decision is still unofficial. Can I create Algeria-Morocco-Tunisia 2030 FIFA World Cup bid article? cordially.-- Boumediene15 ( talk) 19:33, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Boumediene15: I am not involved with any World Cup articles so I have no idea why you are asking me this. Talk:Morocco 2030 FIFA World Cup bid is the appropriate place to discuss a WP:MOVE as there is already an article related to this topic. Reywas92 Talk 20:58, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

I have withdrawn the nom per ChrisTheDude's comment. I didn't realize that having two noms was an issue (it's been a while since I was at FLC). Regarding our discussion, I understand where you are coming from. However, the whole purpose of list articles, in my opinion, is to group similar items so that they are easily understood. History of the Green Bay Packers should include all of this info, just in the form of prose written into the overall history. Green Bay Packers, in theory, should briefly summarize all the major topics (similar to the list of head coaches, starting quarterbacks, first-round draft picks, seasons, etc.). These items are broken out because they form a cohesive group and having tons of tables and longer prose explaining each setting would be redundant. As an example, both the History and the Packers articles explain in the prose about all the head coaches, but we still have a list of Packers head coaches (and do so for every other team, I believe). In my eyes, this is the same exact thing. Now I would be more understanding if the list was only 3 items long, but 8 items is usually long enough to constitute a unique group. I guess that's my opinion on the matter. If you would like to move forward with a merge discussion or AFD, obviously you are welcome to. Cheers, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 20:19, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Navaids in aerodrome articles

Sincere thanks for supporting my case in Kasane Airport! Jan olieslagers ( talk) 18:07, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Answer

To respond to the comment you left me: the guidelines are not the same on every WP project. For example, why is there no capital letter here: Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator)? According to your standards, there should be one, right?

It should also be American politician instead of U.S. politician right? Then what about John Curtin (U.S. politician) or William Wall (U.S. politician)?

It's a mess. Don't give me lessons for following rules that keep changing; nobody can keep up with it.

WhatsUpWorld ( talk) 19:30, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

sorry :)

Hey, I hope you don't mind my including your name in my little tirade recently at wt:NRHP#Texas Panhandle merger of county list-articles. I got frustrated there, obviously, and I complained, including naming you unfairly too. At the moment I was perceiving your statement "Alternatively the small counties could be merged to into National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas", etc., as selling out, when I perceived we needed to have clear focus that only geographically coherent regions would acceptable. I also wasn't acknowledging that you stated you did prefer regions. Anyhow, of course it is okay for you to have whatever opinions you have, even if they don't 100% agree with mine, and I am glad you were sharing. I am sorry if I might have offended you. I do very much appreciate your responding to my request to you to participate in that discussion, and I do appreciate your many other contributions.

About the Texas regions, I expect I'll bring it up again, but not right away. I think it would be better to go forward on a different, easier, state first, taking away one objection asserted about the Texas case (that there are not yet any other state-level examples, at least if one disregards List of RHPs in PR). Happily there's some agreement now at Talk:List of RHPs in WV about region organization in West Virginia, knock on wood. Anyhow, sorry again, and thanks again. -- Doncram ( talk) 19:58, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

October 2018

Information icon Please do not add or change content, as you did at Fishers High School, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. For anything beyond the mundane, independent sources are required. Since two of the sports in that list are not IHSAA sanctioned sports, additional information is required to properly inform our readers. An article on a school is not for the school. John from Idegon ( talk) 23:02, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

@ John from Idegon:. Thanks to User:AuH2ORepublican for adding other sources, but this is complete and utter nonsense. You reverted it from an accurate, complete, sourced list of sports, to an incomplete, unsourced list. I am quite familiar with WP:RS (please don't template me!) and absolutely no part of it bans primary sources. A list of sports is certainly mundane, and it is preposterous to think that an official source is not reliable or usable for this. Citing the school's athletic department is no less permitted than citing the school for the enrollment, for the principal, or for academic offerings. If the school says those are the sports played, it doesn't matter whether they are state-organized or not, they can be listed. Where in the article did it limit the section to IHSAA sports in the first place? Reywas92 Talk 08:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Improved Article + Feedback

Hi Reywas92,

I've had a read of your advice and I improved my article, though I did have some queries. I've wrote them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/List_of_S%26P_1000_companies/archive1&redirect=no

Thanks! XOLE2129 ( talk) 00:33, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Members-elect

@ Reywas92, I don't know if it's an official Wikipedia policy, but certainly the practice in articles listing members of Congress is to wait for a member-elect's term to commence before adding him ir her to the list. There's nothing wrong with adding language to the introductory paragraph noting Tuesday's election of two Native-American women to Congress, but we should wait until January 3, 2019 to add them to the article. For one thing, it's tempting fate to report on future events, since if one of the two gets eaten by wolves (a la President Gerald Ford) she will not be sworn in on January 3 (or, more precisely, her term would not commence on January 3). Similarly, one should never place an end date for the term of a lame-duck member of Congress, given that such member may die or resign prior to January 3.

So we have two options for dealing with the two newly elected Native Americans. One is simply to remove them from the list and wait until their term begins on January 3 (God willing) to add them; that is what typically is done in articles listing members of Congress. The other is to add a section for members-elect listing the two members-elect and their expected start dates; then on January 3, we can move them to the main list and eliminate the members-elect section. This is what is being done for the list of African-American Representatives. Check it out: /info/en/?search=List_of_African-American_United_States_Representatives

Which of the options do you prefer? AuH2ORepublican ( talk) 13:00, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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Gay bar AfDs

Ok, I know you're acting in good faith here, but I can't be expected to drop what I'm doing to participate in all of these AfDs and find sources about all of these topics. Can you please try to slow down the AfDs so these can at least be fairly assessed? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 01:51, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

I did some searches myself and couldn't find much substantial to support notability. I've been to the Seattle Eagle myself and I really fail to see what makes these anything special among the thousands of generic bars and nightclubs (and strip clubs!) across the country/world, open and closed, gay and straight. I removed one that had more search results. Reywas92 Talk 02:05, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
OK, thanks for replying, but my request here is to slow down with the nominations. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 02:11, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Okay I've removed a couple more but I really don't see how they're going to show notability. Reywas92 Talk 02:21, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
I understand, but for example, I just spent over an hour working on Carriage Room just because you nominated the article for deletion. Assessing notability takes time, so nominating a bunch of articles at once does not provide sufficient time to demonstrate sourcing exists and flesh out articles. You might try questioning notability on an article's talk page before just immediately assuming a topic is not notable and marking for deletion. Again, I know you're acting in good faith here, and I appreciate you slowing down with the AfDs here. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 06:39, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Indiana Statehouse

Hey! So you seem to be right about the spelling of the "Indiana Statehouse". Nevertheless, this following page still uses the "State House" spelling version: /info/en/?search=Indiana_State_House. What do you think about it?

Gxiglon ( talk) 23:17, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, sorry for being brusque. I will move that page; all the official sources spell it as one word. Reywas92 Talk 02:19, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
It's fine, you were not rude. Thanks for moving the page ;)
Gxiglon ( talk) 09:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Just a heads up, the "Park" moniker is still applied by the city (even on the linked webpage) and has triple the hits on Google and in The Seattle Times. I don't think it would be worth moving. Sounder Bruce 05:43, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment, I won't move it then. I've known it as Occidental Square since I moved here and there are lots of reputable sources calling it that on Google, but yeah there doesn't appear to be a clear common name argument. Perhaps there's just a gradual shift in what people are used to using! Reywas92 Talk 05:49, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of Washington State legislative districts

Can you explain why it was necessary to delete all the pages for the Washington State legislative districts? Some of them have important information that now doesn't exist in the merged pages, such as the background behind the vacancy for the 40th District. Can't we leave these pages in place so we can further expand them in the future? Or if this significant change has already been discussed somewhere else, can you point me to that discussion? -- Almccon ( talk) 21:03, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

I strongly feel that deleting all the WA state legislative district articles was not a good decision. It would make sense if that information was all duplicative and contained elsewhere, but it wasn't and isn't. Each page's legislative district page included the districts current representatives, which is duplicative, but also described the districts geography in detail and information about the contemporary and historical political landscape in those districts, covering vacancy appointments, special elections, and more. This was all substantive, factual information that is now lost and no longer accessible. The "master page" that contains a list of all WA's 49 legislative districts is not a meaningful substitute. -- Reliken ( talk) 19:47, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

I have also come for the same reason...I looked through Reywas' contributions and do not see anything relating to a discussion approving it. It seems a very dramatic move to make without consensus (far beyond the parameters of WP:BEBOLD). I am going to undo all of the edits and begin a discussion at Talk:Washington state legislative districts. Reywas et al, please continue this there. PrairieKid ( talk) 18:05, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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Unless you wish me to bring a case against you...

...to ANI for WP:Harassment, I would suggest that you stop following my edits and reverting them. I have sufficient evidence right now, but I'm willing to let it go if you simply stop. I hope that's clear.

BTW, ArbCom has clearly ruled on a number of occasions that edit warring to enforce MOS -- which is an advisory guideline, and not a mandatory policy, is not a valid reason for edit warring. Please keep that in mind. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 00:14, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

I have made no edits that violate policy. It's not harassment to re-add a correct comma and remove an incorrect one, to place images in the relevant section, or to perform basic copyediting. Nothing I have done is offensive or threatening, and it's inappropriate to suggest it is. Enforcing something that goes against MOS is not a valid reason to revert me repeatedly either. You have provided no valid reason at all why the images should be in the wrong section and break the horizontal header line. Reywas92 Talk 00:30, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi there, Reywas92. Here's my latest FLC. Please feel free to leave your comments there, thank you.  — Ssven2 Looking at you, kid 07:38, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I would hate to think...

...that you were following me around by looking at my contributions and going to an article that you have never edited before -- Daniel Burnham -- to revert the layout changes I made to it, after we had a dispute on the exact same issue at St. Francis Dam, because doing so would be a violation of WP:Harassment and would probably get you blocked for editing for a period of time. I would suggest that you not do that again, or else you might find yourself as the subject of a report to WP:AN/I. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 07:58, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I see that I've warned you about this before. You're living on the edge, pal. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 08:00, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Ooooh I'm sooo scared... I'm not the one who was just blocked for edit warring. Unclear why you deliberately made changes inconsistent with the MOS, other than your repeated excuse that the MOS is not mandatory. Reywas92 Talk 08:04, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

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